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Film takes a look at summer help from foreign students

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Dennis and Winnie, summer help up the Gunflint Trail during the summer of 2014. Photo by Maggie Friedrichs
Dennis and Winnie, summer help up the Gunflint Trail during the summer of 2014. Photo by Maggie Friedrichs

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A new documentary by filmmaker Melody Gilbert focuses on the thousands of international students who descend upon summer resorts and tourist towns in the U.S., including along the North Shore, to clean hotel rooms, wash dishes and make pizza for Americans on vacation.

WTIP’s Joe Friedrichs spoke with Gilbert about her new film. 

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